Those stories from different eras of ancient China will lead you to the beauty of Chinese

all the stories here might hurt your feelings or will make you have butterflies in stomach. thank you, godbless.

TLDR: I will be taking a break for around a week due to my school assignments/examinations coming up and will remain posting on 30th July 2018. For my new Webnovel viewers, I wouldn't mind you not voting for me using your power stones next week since I won't be posting for that week!

Hi! For my QI readers, I realised that you didn't get to read how I started writing Spirit Immortal. So below is a short description of myself!


Background about myself and inspirations for writing Spirit Immortal
Currently, I am a university undergraduate, and I have been reading fiction for years. I first got into reading fiction because of anime. Initially, I was a pure anime/manga fan. But I then found out about the existence of light novels. Light novels were far ahead from the existing anime, so I started to binge read translated volumes on Baka-Tsuki. It became somewhat of a drug to me. I kept reading and eventually, fictions had become part of my daily life. However, everything changed when the Yen Press attacked… Suddenly, many of my favourite novels disappeared, and less and less light novel translations surfaced. 

Finding myself in a severe deficit of fictions to read, I found something called Novelupdates. Every few minutes, there was a new novel chapter being released. I was overjoyed. Finally, I was able to satisfy my daily fiction needs. That was how I got into wuxia/xianxia novels. Being ethnically Chinese and fluent in both English and Chinese, there was a great allure for me in these stories. When I was younger, I would frequently watch The Legend of the Condor Heroes and many what we call "wuxia xiaoshuo." So seeing that the traditional stories blend with modern themes was somewhat shocking to me. To think that such a part of the internet existed!

So I started reading a lot of wuxia/xianxia stories. I remember the early days of Coiling Dragon and Stellar Transformations. The friendly competition between Gravitytales and Wuxiaworld. But one day, I encountered Doulou Dalu. For those who have not noticed, Spirit Immortal's cultivation system is inspired by this very novel. The reason being, it was the only cultivation system that I could actually follow. It's a very simplistic system, rank 1-100. The other Wuxia novels cultivation systems confused the heck out of me. However, worry not, Spirit Immortal is not a fanfiction of Doulou Dalu. In fact, other than the cultivation levels, they are nothing alike.

For a while, Doulou Dalu was my favourite novel. To a certain extent, it still is my favourite translated wuxia/xianxia novel. But I started feeling bored. Every single book that I read followed the same format. And after many disappointing stories, I thought to myself… Hey, I could just write something I like!

Thus, the idea of Spirit Immortal started germinating in my mind. It took me over five months to finish plotting the major arcs, characters and finally the ending before I started typing my first word. Majority of the reason why it took so long for me to start writing this story is because of my procrastination and school. Additionally, I didn't know if the story was going to be well received. But eventually, I steeled my mind and said: "Whatever, as long as I am satisfied with the story, who cares?"

So yeah, currently the number one fan of Spirit Immortal is myself, and I can't wait to put the entire story I have in my head into words for all of you to read. It will take time though, so do stick around!


Issues I have had when writing Book Two
I have realised that many of you were unsatisfied with the pace of the story, saying that it is too slow and whatnot. And guess what, I agree! I have been putting the character and world development at the forefront of my story thus slowing down the story progression, However, fret not, now that the first two books are completed, the story progression would begin to expedite as I believe that I have sufficiently developed my characters!

I'm trying to be more descriptive in my writing but that is still a work in progress. Perhaps it would be the greatest hurdle for me but rest assured, I will try my best!

Another major issue I had was time management. I started writing Spirit Immortal during my semester break where I had plenty of time. I even managed to complete Book 1 during that break itself! However, once school started, I had to figure out a way to balance work, personal life and writing Spirit Immortal. There were some days where I only had three hours to efficiently write, proofread and edit my chapter before I deemed it ready to be published. Hence, there might be times where my writing quality dropped slightly but I'm trying my best to ensure that I retain and even improve on my writing quality, so please be patient with me on that one.


Future of Spirit Immortal
Once my semester break hits once more, I will be sitting myself down in order to write as many chapters as I can. Perhaps, eventually, I will take the road of creating a ******* account to allow you guys to read advance chapters and at the same time, give myself some funding to weather through the school days. 

So yeah, I can't thank you guys enough for continuing to stick with me as I continue to write Spirit Immortal. I hope that I will be able to deliver the satisfying fiction that I have conjured up and brought you as much enjoyment as I had in writing this story!

Over a million years ago, the first human contracted with the first Spirit. Ever since then, Spirit use has become commonplace. Humans used Spirits to carry items and start fires. Eventually, even start wars. Thousands upon thousands of years past and one day, one human did the impossible. He transcended his mortality and ascended to the realm above.  

In the present day, the Frie Clan was once a great clan of the Himmel empire. However, a devastating battle ten years ago crippled the clan and their numbers dwindled. To make up for their loss, the upper echelons decided to adopt young orphans and nurture them to become a future pillar of the weakened clan. Shin was one of those orphans. 

Although picked up by the Frie Clan, not all is smooth sailing for Shin and the other orphans...
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The author had an idea when he ate delicious Italian pasta. But the pasta came from Arabistan? Although others say that the Arabs borrowed the idea from China along the Silk Road. One way or another, it would be great if Dara could use pasta as a subject for trade! But in the modern world, hundreds of pasta variants of different shapes, contents, taste and color have already been created and are known. Few can surprise them ?!

But if ... if ..yu Daru move to another place and time?

Place for example, parallel fun! After all, astronomers say that there are 22,000 worlds in the world! But it sounds too fantastic, the genre is a fiction of history ... and not science fiction. Although consciousness could temporarily go to Nirvana ... or begin to travel through the universes ... but this is already from Chinese philosophy and Integral Yoga ... Little scientific. In addition, Dara is not fond of science fiction.

Therefore, as one of our design engineers says, it's better to bomb (that is, work) on your subject. So there must be a story ?! So this world, place Earth, but what time to choose? Paleolithic? This is 48,000 years ago. Then, for sure, there was no wheat ... and probably rice ... Then maybe in the Bronze Age? 3000 years ago? The era of the Late Holocene ... it's cold, the glacier has not yet been ravaged ... Although, wait a minute, the very last glaciation of the Earth itself was the Würezke, and this is 35,000 years ago ?! Or maybe Dara would end up in Sogd or Bactria. The language is more or less like Farsi ?! And it looks like the language of Small-An, Esperanto of the Silk Road, a mixture of Arabic, Monogol, Persian, Chinese, Turkic ...

For example, in the 6-7th century? Or immediately during the battle of the Arabs and the Chinese, who had the main Korean commander? The famous Talas battle ?!

It seems best to send Dara, in the era of antiquity, the first settlement of a modern, straight-walking person, that is, the time began to develop mountain valleys, floodplains, terraces, and foothill valleys. Sowing them with walnut trees and bushes. The beginning of a grandiose project on irrigation of the steppe ... the creation of irrigation canals. Visit of the Chinese monks ... the first century AD and as 5 centuries of the functioning of the Silk Road ...

But here I, as an author, already understand that there are so many different versions of such events - rebirth, getting into another world, a parallel world, into the past or the future ... that is, it turns out, again the plot can become a cliché or cliché. That is not original. On the other hand, in the 21st century it is naive to think that after the masters of the genre of writing short stories, geniuses and just masters who have gotten their hands on the writing of works of art, a new genre can be created.

One way or another, I will not endow the main character with super powers, only those that were in the novel "Magic Coin Jiang." It can be with a part of truncated functions.

Or maybe he'll send Dar to the 7th century ... a couple of years before Li-Ban's trip or while sending Li-Ban to the desert ... but then, it will be difficult for the Chinese, who know a lot about cooking noodles, to surprise them and make your business successful.

Therefore, it may be worth sending Dar nevertheless to the "Light" mountains. To not be too fantastic, his knowledge of a foreign language for him. And where will Dara find the money for her business? In those places that the Historian told him about? Will he be able to make a metal detector himself? Or, nevertheless, let the plot be borrowed from Japanese authors with their purchase of equipment on the Internet site or just a selection of goods in a shopping center? Or is it easier to equip Dar with the ability of his eyes and glasses to temporarily work in the ground scanning mode to detect gold coins and silver, copper, bronze, and precious stones. Like a superhero, Maytimaus?

I should think. In total, I plan to write 5 or 10 chapters on this volume. How Dara applies her knowledge from the modern world to become a merchant, open her own trading business, open her own farm store or become a speculator - a reseller. There are many options.

Tomorrow I will write the first chapter.

And along the way, you will have to work on the remaining chapters, Gifts, somewhat abandoned due to the arch with treasure hunters, but I will return to it later. Since there is still new information on this topic.

Thank you, my laconic readers, thank you for reading, this gives an incentive to write further! With respect and appreciation.

COMPLETED

The Silk Road ... it is inevitable the emergence of wells, caravanserais, guard fortresses, postal stations, local bazaars, regional bazaars, the emergence of new jobs:
- robbers (there were whole settlements)
- caravan guards
- changed
- merchants

Just about them and will be discussed.


About their life, tricks.

Alas, English is still the same ... there are mistakes, I am sure of it.

I hope over time I will be able to fix them.

I just wanted to share information about such an interesting topic as the history of the development of the Silk Road.

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And also a series of stories about treasures, treasure hunters.

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This is a work of art. Any resemblance to real people or real events is purely coincidental.

Some argue that various works by authors that do not meet the requirement of fine grammar and spelling are rubbish. Here, each person has his own opinion, and let him stick to it and impose his opinion on others as the ultimate truth, it speaks only of ignorance of life. It is diverse.

Is the work of authors with poor grammar garbage? In my opinion, no. Each author tells his story, passed through his worldview, attitude, understanding of life, his experience and thoughts about the world. It's always interesting for me to read this personally.

I'm a bibliophile, I read a lot of classic works of art, Tomass and Gernih Mana, Feuchtwanger, Mark Twain, Stvenson, Romain Roland, Galsworthy, Tolstoy and all his volumes and there are about 19 of them! I didn't read Dostoevsky, I didn't like him. But Azek Azimov, Ursuda Le Guin, Tolkien, Kipling, Conandoyle, Louis Besenar and others I read with pleasure. Li Bo, the poetry is gorgeous. Novels of feudal and late feudal China, Japan, Korea. Novels and novels by Chinese prose writers of the early 20s and 80-90s of the 20th century.

In general, I read about 10,000 books. Fiction, fantasy, poetry, historical novels, ballads, myths and legends.

After that I became interested in reading historical documentaries - about the history of the Silk Road, Archeology, History, Ethnography, Etymology, the Big Game, the story of the confrontation of imperial intelligence in the vast regions of the Silk Road.

I read about 550 books, from the 16th to the beginning of the 21st century.

I have some kind of base for evaluating short stories and novels.

Sometimes works written flawlessly in terms of grammar, alas ... they are completely devoid of meaning, they are not interesting, they do not have fascinating stories, conclusions, experience, thoughts. But work with poor grammar, on the contrary, have unique information. Of course, not all works, but there are some.

Therefore, when assessing the creativity of another person, the author, being so categorical in evaluations, says only that you have a maximalist who still knows life poorly. This is the right of choice, each person, and to impose a choice on another according to my preferences, I consider this not comme il faut. Well, here everyone has a point of view.

In fact, this is an eternal question - what is more important? Beautiful text form or good content? Bestsellers are those works that combine good text and good content.

I am the author myself. But not a professional writer, but a techie. I don't know much about composition, about the intricacies of writing good text. But I have a very interesting content. Is my story garbage? I do not think so? Do I respect the reader? Sure. But writing is better so far I can't. Nevertheless, I have my own circle - readers who are interested in my work. There are not hundreds or thousands of people, but a couple of dozen will be typed.

I write in the genre - a documentary historical fiction, there are many interesting facts about the Silk Road with which I wanted to share. If I were waiting for the moment when I could write well in terms of English grammar ... I would not be able to share it now ... maybe in a couple of years ... and still I would not be able to write like this they write - people from English-speaking countries. This is a favorite topic of native speakers to reproach those who learn this language in their ignorance of the intricacies of the language they learn, grammar and spelling errors ... As we say, the dog barks, the caravan goes on. That happens.

English is the world language of communication. Moreover, for me it is the third language. I speak English well, but my grammar is lame. I admit it. Yes, I need to teach her, but I don't think I can write in perfect English.

The overall result - write as you can, share your thoughts, in the era of information, the content itself is important and not its form. One way or another, it can help others, they can come to a new thought and write a story about your topic that you would like to read yourself!


As they say in the East - do good and throw it into the water, a person will not know, the fish will know!

Peace and prosperity!

Thoughts of why and why stories are written.

All the same English, he has not improved in 18 days.

I'll figure something out, try to correct the text.

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This is a work of art. Any resemblance to real people or real events is purely coincidental.

Now let's get the standard definition out of the way first: Wuxia (武俠 [ù. ɕjǎ]), which literally means "martial heroes", is a genre of Chinese fiction concerning the adventures of martial artists in ancient China. Where people are always fighting.

Now when I say 'always fighting', I mean they can't go one day without someone hurting the pride of another which then turns into a duel where one may die a bloody death just to defend 'honour'.

In my humble opinion, I've always understood yet couldn't agree with how 'honour' works in these stories just as in real life. The reason you see people doing stupid things for the sake on honour is because ancient times worked like this.

It was the same literally everywhere in the world and the whole reason most Xianxia usually start off in a Wuxia setting. Because the people of this world are naturally narrow-minded due to the belief system they are taught about what should be done for the sake of defending or preserving a family's honour. As they have much to learn, a Xianxia allows them to slowly grow through journeys.

However, a Xianxia is at the end more about magic and 'the Dao' than practical martial arts. Stories like Martial King's Retired Life and Legend of the Condor Heroes are more about fictional martial arts that have some level of believability to them.

They are a different beast from Xianxia which demand the characters to grow, as Wuxia stories pride themselves on flawed characters that may get some development but won't change the same way a celestial would on his path to godhood.

There's no 'Cultivators are sealing resources from each other which is why the world sucks' crap in these stories as Martial Heroes of these fiction are all inevitably visited by death. They don't seek immortality, so their reasons for fighting become much more personal and raw. From revenge on another to greed, anything is possible for them.

Those who train martial arts have to have a fiery will and no nonsense personality in this world if they don't want to be screwed over in pugilistic society of fighters. Though not really magic, some techniques might as well be magic with how they end up doing absurd things like smashing boulders with their fists and flying through the air.

Mangas like Peerless Dad do a good job in portraying the hardships and the kind of people that are formed through a mixture of experience from the technique they practice and view on life.

Some could end up seeing others are fires just waiting to be started if they get too obsessed on training their fire-related technique while others could become more pious and nurturing individuals from learning a healing technique to help others.

Though it isn't like a technique shapes the personality of characters as the main character of Peerless Dad would have become a masochist if that was the case. No technique is easy to train and one must always be affected by the hardships it took to train their technique, even the prodigy main characters. After all, who doesn't love the feeling of accomplishment from rewarded efforts?

There isn't really much a structure to writing these stories once you got your setting down and put forth rational struggles for the main character to overcome to reach his goals. Then you can even introduce the power dynamics of various factions.

No one is perfect, and you shouldn't hold back from showing flawed characters in this setting who have been personally moulded by their sucky environment, but that don't go too far, as making the world too crap to live in makes people sad.

Blood and gore in this setting are either exaggerated or skipped as not many stories want to focus on a brutal death unless the character really deserved such an end (subjectively). It's to the point that some main characters of these stories become blood-obsessed-murder-hobos who end up killing all of those they love and hate.

When figuring out the end goal of your main character, make it pretty specific so they can reach it or pretty vague so they themselves don't know even at the end of the story if they've achieved it.

The 'Heroes' of these stories aren't supposed to be paragons of justice but those who are special due to either high talent or destiny. Think of classic Greek Mythology if you want good examples as Heracles was a total badass in his Twelve Labours.

The themes of these stories mostly pertain to overcoming stuff like social status and destiny or so on. As these worlds are normally unforgiving to those not wealthy just like how in medieval times nobility were sometimes assholes to commoners.

As governments can't control who in these worlds become 'talented' or what kind of absurd techniques can come into existence in these worlds. It is natural that there is always chaos and death in these pugilistic worlds, to the point you start to wonder how could civilisation survive with so many unjust massacres going around.

Most writers remedy this by making governing forces at least give some level of protection to its residents and makes it so the ones getting the power aren't all murder hobos like what realistically would happen. The story is how you make it.

There CAN be warm and lighthearted stories in ancient China but just remember that these stories are inevitably set in pasts where people didn't have modern social values. A member of royalty hitting on you to the point of wanting 'ownership' of you while ignoring yours opinions could be considered a generic love story in such backward societies.

Getting someone's calculated murder investigated was pretty hard and there was so many loopholes back then that it's only natural that even the most amateur of authors can easily write these stories.

You don't need to learn ancient customs as things in the past were less about rules and more about honour or status. Those who know good are more than likely to get preyed upon in these societies.

However, my biggest gripe with some of these stories is that they sometimes make an avenger that realistically shouldn't be tricked into an all-knowing judge of character like in literally every revenge related story of this genre.

These Author's ignore any growth or degradation on the main character's part and instead focus on his 'cool' plus omniscient they are. Setting aside any character development in favour of basically praising how awesome this character was or is.

An example of what I mean is in 'The Evil Girl is The Emperor' where the main character gets betrayed by a loved one and instantly gets over the pain of his betrayal literally moments after finding it out.

It's almost like betrayal is a mere trope with no value other than being there rather than an important tool that can temper the main character's personality. The reasons for why they were betrayed may not be as simple as 'because they were so blind they could not recognise a jerk in their vicinity', but rather, more sincere reasons like the MC's negligence on a certain matter, or even history they didn't know about the betrayer.

Forming a bond of hatred is not always as simple as one person is bad and other is good. As this is supposed to a society with flawed people, it is alright to show that even the MC has his flaws that he must overcome. Even after his betrayal.

Anger as a motivation isn't bland, what makes people bored is when anger becomes the main character's only defining character trait. You must at least give them a life if you use this trope.

Lastly, make sure that you aren't throwing characters at the main character for the sake of adding action. A character that actively seeks conflicts is the antagonist, but it doesn't mean that all journeys with conflict can never be justified.

Don't just make it as simple as the main character fighting some bandits out of compassion for the locals, but more like him getting a taste of reality for being hot-headed when takes action.

The Revival Man Manhwa isn't a Wuxia, but it perfectly encapsulates a hot-headed main character getting screwed over by his greatest character strength, his hot-Hesse's drive, due to the realistic consequences of not planning ahead.

Just be sure to build a sense of community between characters and develop them properly.

Anyway, that's all I got. Hope it help you and ask for more Analysis blogs anytime without holding back~

(Cover by Darkstar Dust)

This is a story I worked on ages ago that has been refined and edited by adding foreshadowing to events while also simplifying the power system better than before. This story can be considered a prequel to An Adventure Beyond Greatness as it takes place years prior to the events of that story.

Short Synopsis:
After retiring from the battlefield, my life became empty and lifeless. The regrets of my past haunt me in my sleep. Then a change occurred, a King from another world summoned me to fight for his kingdom, but I died even before I could give him my answer. Now, after a fake God allowed me to reincarnate (albeit imperfectly) with my memories intact, into a world filled with magic and swords.

Long Synopsis:
This is about a flawed protagonist who only knew to rely on others and not socialise who gets a second chance to change himself in order to live the life he aimed for in his past life. The narrator isn’t exactly trustworthy since it is purely in his bias perspective while other perspectives given by others fill in the blanks that he either leaves out or twists to suit the situation.

The story itself can be considered a parody of Isekai’s classic tropes which are given a sense of reality as time goes by. As there exists no ‘Demon Lord’, there is also no black and white, only characters opinions and counter-opinions throughout the story.

This is my first fan-fiction, so please don't be too harsh on me. The reason why I decided to write this is very simple. I wanted to read a REALLY good harem story. Don't get me wrong there are plenty of good harem stories out there, but many of them lack one of two things, quality or quantity. Sadly there are very few harem stories out there who have both, so I decided to write my own. There are a few things you should know before reading this novel. The first thing you should know is that this will be a giant harem. The MC will pick up women left and right, so if you dislike that kind of thing I would recommend you drop this novel. The second thing is that all the heroines who are part of MC harem will have huge or giant breasts. The MC is obsessed with boobs, just like Issei from HSDXD, so if you dislike it you should also drop it. The harem of the MC will consist of many women from anime, manga, hentai, anime games, light novels, Chinese novels, and fairy tails as well as many of my OC. If there is a character you want me to add to his harem you just need to write it under the lates chapter. You can recommend any girl you want. It doesn't matter if she has big boobs or not in the original source material. All the heroines who were flat in their original stories will for POLT reasons have huge breasts and those who already had huge breasts will have even bigger ones. However, I should mention that I won't include characters from American comics (no Wonder Woman), tv-series or movies (except RWBY). Also, I won't include characters from shoujo and josei manga (no Sailor Moon). As for the plot, the MC will be reincarnated in a world where many anime characters co-exist (like Start by Becoming a Mangaka), however, he will also travel to other worlds for story reasons. The last thing you should know is that this story will have a slower pace because I want to focus on the characters, so please bear with me.
Here is a list of some of the works I will include in my the series as well as some characters from thous works who I will definitely include in the harem (of course there will be more):
One Piece (i will definitely include Nami, Robin and Boa)
Naruto (Tsunade, Ino, Hinata)
Bleach (Orihime, Rukia, Soi Fon, Rangiku)
High School DxD (sadly for story reasons I can't include Rias)(Akeno, Rossweiss, Koneko, Kuroka)
Highschool Of The Dead (Shizuka, Saya, Saeko, Rei)
Triage X (Mikoto, Sayo, Oriha, Yuko)
Maken Ki (Aki, Haruko, Inaho)
Sekirei (Matsu, Miya, Kazehana, Akitsu, Musubi)
Fairy Tail (Erza, Lucy, Wendy, Juvia, Mavis)
Danmachi (Freya, Hestia, Ais, Liliruca, Hephaestus)
Assassination Classroom
We Never Learn
Goblin Slayer
Gate - Where the JSDF Fought
Farming Life in Another World
How NOT to Summon a Demon Lord
Gun-ota
Hachinan tte, Sore wa Nai Deshou!
Tales of Wedding Rings
Mushoku Tensei
Overlord
Re:Monster
Prison School
Tales of Demons and Gods
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime
To LOVE-RU 
Yuragi-sou no Yuuna-san
World's End Harem
The Death Mage Who Doesn't Want a Fourth Time
Tsugumomo
Re:Creators
Against the Gods
From Common Job Class to the Strongest in the World
Ancient Strengthening Technique
I'm Bad at Communication, But I Maxed Out My Negotiation Skills So I Got Reincarnated
Grand Prize: Unrivalled Harem Ticket
Sevens
Hajimete No Gal
No Game No Life
Boku No Hero Academia
Black Clover
Monster Musume
Food Wars (Erina, Alice, Megumi)
Hunter x Hunter
Toriko
Kimetsu no Yaiba
The Promised Neverland
One-Punch Man (Fubuki,Tatsumaki)
Nisekoi
Konosuba
Kuroko no Basket and many more.

A man dies and is reincarnated into an anime world.
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Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters from the original source materials, they all belong to their original creators, except my OC.

The cover is not mine.

It is with a heavy heart that I've got to inform all of you, I have pulled down over 150 chapters of this story from WN. As I mentioned last month (April), I had noticed my story showing up on multiple sites, without my permission. They all linked back to WN  (with claims the story was being written in chinese, and translated/posted onto WN). I can assure you none of that was true, and like I said previously, the fact my story was constantly being posted elsewhere, without my permission, or even giving me credit for the story, was something I couldn't turn a blind eye to. DCO is a big part of what allows me to write full time. I am barely able to pay my bills as is, and so, things that take away from potentially bringing me in more readers/supporters, and harming my future as an author, could not be taken lightly.
I will be leaving these first 40ish chapters up, for now, to give people here at least a part of the story. For those of you interested in continuing, DCO is as of 1 May 2020, at over 200 chapters on Royal Road, and even more for those who wish to support me as patrons. Additionally, my patrons get access to over 40k words worth of a patron exclusive litrpg that takes place in my DCO world, as well as early access to rough draft chapters of my third book in my elemental dungeon series.

If you like my stories, and what I do, check out 'Bone Dungeon' and 'Infernal Bones' on Amazon, both free on KU. Those are my published works. Otherwise, head over to https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/21501/dco--dungeon-core-online and continue this story!

I really appreciate all of you, who have take the time to give my story a read, and I really dislike that I cannot keep posting here. But again, I just financially cannot allow such things to happen. I hope you all understand.

Cheers,
Glyax

James hates his real life. He spends his days being bullied in school, and at home he simply reads and plays games. The only thing he has to look forward to is immersion. When he is immersed in the virtual world he can be whatever, whoever, he wants: He can escape the world that has thrown him away.

As such, when a new game, Dungeon Core Online, comes out, James is excited to play. He immerses himself as soon as he can, but when he is set to create his character he is instead offered a different choice. Now, James is the Dungeon Core and he suddenly finds himself wielding more power, with more options, than he's ever had before. The only downside... there are people in the real world who do anything, even kill, to gain the power of a Dungeon Core in the virtual world.

This story originated on and is updated on Royal Road

This story is the sole property of Jonathan Smidt, otherwise known as Glyax

If you like this story, check out Bone Dungeon (my published work), or see about becoming a patron of mine (search Glyax) for advanced access to chapters, etc

Wong Jiayin started to disappear, breaking apart into pure energy. Soon, all that was left was an empty pile of vines.

[She is fine. Wong Jiayin will go back to where she was before arriving in Gaellia.]

"Is that so?" I voiced but was reassured.

The eighteen-year-old had not been innocent but I still felt killing her was too extreme a reaction. What the Chinese girl needed was not death but therapy and to maybe answer for her crimes. She going off the deep-end was not an excuse to forgive her for killing Rosettia Fillemund and whatever else she did to reach Level 54 so quickly.

(Maybe we were all victims of happenstance. Jiayin, Rosettia, me, and whoever else not native to this planet.)

I looked at the sky which was starting to gather storm clouds from a side-effect of the <Firestorm> messing with the atmospheric pressure. I saw the dancing energy that was the remnants of Jiayin continue to float up before it got too far for me to see without enhancing my vision.

"Miss Wong, I wish you will eventually find peace—and not in death."

Looking down at the pile of vines, I watched as 37 put the entire thing in our Inventory to handle later and was sure the Wind Fire Wheels were also taken.

After a moment, I irritatedly mussed my hair, ruining the half-tail it had been pulled back in. "Ahhhh!"

All this and I still never got any answers from her!

[Actually…]

"Hm?"

Please tell me… 

[One of the rewards for a won Duel is the other Partner's Biography. And I did manage to glean some information in my altercation with Program D-01.]

I stopped bothering to stand on the ground, pulling my feet up and throwing my hands up in the air in relief. Thankfully all this effort wasn't for nothing!

'So?' I eagerly asked my adorable and cute AI (unlike the psycho 01) while I sat with my legs crossed while <Hovering.>

[Ahem. I suggest we relocate first—]

Before I could ask why, 37 continued.

[Nostradamus is closing in on our—]

'You had me at Nostradamus!'

And I was gone.

…

…

A few days later, I was making myself scarce, staying in the Wyvern Roost.

I spent the past few days going through the spoils of winning the Duel while talking with 37 and clarifying some points. 

Most of the items weren't of use for me immediately or redundant, so I just put it aside in my Inventory. The only things of relevance were several records and scrolls.

The Birth of the Spider-Lily had been a somber read. It gave me a bit of insight into what the eighteen-year-old went through on Gaellia. 

There wasn't much revealed when it came to the mechanics of Programs and their Partners, other than the fact systems reflected the Partner—Jiayin had a dimensional pocket and techniques common to stories I've seen in female-orientated C-novels (and I suppose 01 was her "pet") in contrast to my game-like setup. 

I found out way more than I wanted to about the Eastern Kingdoms though, including the fact Jiayin was a deft hand at mental manipulation. King Zadok had been under her control when she left to Crown City to stir up some more trouble. 

For some reason, Jiayin had been after Nostradamus which made me conflicted. Was it a good thing or bad that I happened to pop up onto her radar when I followed Natasha and she split, thinking I was stalking her as another Partner? Because it was obvious that Jiayin had no chance against the half-alfr but the likeliest outcome—with her bullheadedness—would have been a fairly gruesome death.

Sorcery was a magic that made me think sadists invented the magic system.

Other than that, I flipped through the spells she knew. Apparently, when they were talking about a Partner's property, they meant everything. Since most of her knowledge was of Forbidden Magic, the only useful one I would actually use was her disguise technique <False Face.>

My partner was busy going through all the information he managed to get from glimpses of 01's coding.

I now knew there were different Programs types: A, D, and N models. A stupid but very plain naming system of "Angel Programs," "Devil Programs," and "Neutral Programs."

It was my fault for never thinking to ask why 37 chose to contact 42 until after the fight with 01. Sometimes, my partner was reticent with information—probably a side-effect of his programming—that would have been useful to know since I couldn't read his mind unlike he could mine.

Rosettia Fillemund had been partnered with Program A-42. 37 had wanted to contact 42 because he was aware that "A" designations were "good."

Well, I couldn't blame 37 for not mentioning this to me before. I had thoroughly questioned my AI and he seemed only a little more informed than I was when it came to his brethren and why we were all in Gaellia.

It probably had to deal with the fact that Neutral Programs were supposed to turn into Angel or Devils as they learned from their Partners. Child programs that didn't become "aware" until they changed.

That was what 01 had been cackling about in her last moments, after all. She thought 37 would turn into a Devil Program after killing Jiayin, not realizing he meant to delete 01 herself.

I sighed.

*Purrr? Klck.*

I turned my head to the mother wyvern. "I'm bored."

The wyvern only cocked her head to one side before dismissing me and started grooming one of her babies that struggled to run from its bath.

Looking at the amusing sight for a moment, I turned my gaze back out into Crown City. The sky was turning purple and orange from the sunset, glass and metal reflecting the sun and sending young wyverns to chase the scattered light.

Meanwhile, the fallout from the battle in the sky of Crown City during the night resulted in the end of the Conference. With the "attack" on the city, the foreign dignitaries felt unsafe to linger any longer. 

And, I suppose, since they were only going in circles, the scholars have given up on the meeting for the moment. It was time to gather more information before they were to meet again.

I was trying to figure out how to leave the information I got from Jiayin's biography to someone that could do something about it (someone not me). The Head Librarian seemed the best candidate even if Nostradamus was the one I knew that was closest to politics.

Considering the fact I ditched my Library Key on a random weather pane to keep the half-alfr from tracking me down, it was kind of obvious I was avoiding the Master Sorcerer.

[Nori?]

'What's up?'

[… should I delete myself so you can go back home?]

I was taken aback. "Where did this come from?"

[It's because you're bonded with me that a Devil Program and Partner targeted us. There are dozens more of my kind on Gaellia and… and I do not know enough to be able to help you.]

'Nonsense. Are you feeling guilty? Well, don't. You're practically in the same boat as me, Thirty-Seven.'

[But…]

"Also, I would not want to leave if it required sacrificing you. And…"

I had a reason to stay in Gaellia now.

[Nori?]

Clapping my hand, I floated out of the belltower to settle on the roof. I rubbed my hands in anticipation. "Enough with the doom and gloom! The Conference has ended so that means the Quest is complete! Show me the rewards!"

Fiction. Fiction. Fiction. Give me something to read!

A window popped up:

<Quest Complete.>

I impatiently skimmed through the summary.

<Reward>
<Subclass gained: Ninja>
<Reading App for Terminal Unlocked.>
<Allowance of 100,000 words for Reading App.>

I paused before digging out my smartphone and opening the new app. 

WHAT IS THIS?! 

[You can do Dailies for more points to read with, Nori.]

Yo. Name's Nori. I'm just an ordinary twenty-year-old university student—really—that woke up transported to this world called Gaellia one day. On my first day, I find myself thrown in jail and met my partner that will travel with me: an AI that I have a telepathic bond with.

[Nori, there are monsters attacking the city.]

Not my problem.

"Big Sis! I bought this dress for you!"

"Bro! Let's head to the gate to see who would get a higher kill count!"

[Nori, if you do this mission, you can read 50,000 words of a new title—]

Ah! Alright already, I get it!


**On hiatus for volume compilation**
***Volume Two being roughed out***
{Note: Written in 1st Person POV. Nori is nonbinary. Romance-free for Nori but lots of misunderstandings happen.}

Dear Reader, I am not a professional writer - I have terrible spelling and extremely bad grasp of gramma. With that been said with the help of the most loved app Grammarly and the love of my partner who reads and offers advice, That whom is an amazing writer her self. This work of fiction was able to be put into words and accessible all over the world. 

My experience in creating stories come from my love of Dungeons and Dragons and creating homebrew games for friends and loved ones to explore. This story is a prequel to the campaign I have been running and building in the last year. I wanted to offer the players of my game to experience this part of the story in a way they can fall in love lore I have created.
I have spent many hours researching and cutting and snipping things from the stories and tales of Norse mythology to some people today do worship in the religion polytheistic. All religions and belief systems I respect and in no way is my work of fiction meant to offend or upset believers of the polytheistic religion. Though I used the stories and tales as a base of my story in no way are they meant to be offensive. This story is meant to be enjoyed as a story of its own, there is very little collation to the Poetic Edda.
My style of writing you will see is to write a vague description of what is happening and then I reread the story adding in more detail and actions as they take place. My goal is to bring my world of the Asgard to life and give it meaning to you the reader. I thank you for reading this, much love from my Asgard and Loki to your family.

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